Risso - Propaganda and intelligence in the Cold War : the NATO Information Service

This book offers the first account of the foundation, organisation and activities of the NATO Information Service (NATIS) during the Cold War.

NATIS was pivotal in bringing national delegations together to discuss their security, information and intelligence concerns and, when appropriate or possible, to devise a common response to the communist threat. At the same time, NATIS liaised with bodies like the Atlantic Institute and the Bilderberg Group in an attempt to promote a coordinated western response. The NATO archive material also shows that NATIS carried out its own information and intelligence activities.

Examining the role of NATIS as a forum for the exchange of ideas and techniques about how to develop and run propaganda programmes, this book presents a sophisticated understanding of the extent to which national information agencies collaborated. By focusing on the degree of cooperation on cultural and information activities, this analysis of NATIS also contributes to the history of NATO as a political alliance and reminds us that NATO was and still is primarily a political organisation.

This book will be of much interest to students of NATO, Cold War history, intelligence studies and international relations in general.

Linda Risso is Associate Professor in Modern History at the University of Reading.

Studies in Intelligence
General Editors: Richard J. Aldrich and Christopher Andrew

British Military Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign, 19141918
Yigal Sheffy

British Military Intelligence in the Crimean War, 18541856
Stephen M. Harris

Allied and Axis Signals Intelligence in World War II
Edited by David Alvarez

Knowing Your Friends
Intelligence inside alliances and coalitions from 1914 to the Cold War
Edited by Martin S. Alexander

Eternal Vigilance
50 years of the CIA
Edited by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones and Christopher Andrew

Nothing Sacred
Nazi espionage against the Vatican, 19391945
David Alvarez and Revd.
Robert A. Graham

Intelligence Investigations
How Ultra changed history
Ralph Bennett

Intelligence Analysis and Assessment
Edited by David A. Charters, Stuart Farson and Glenn P. Hastedt

TET 1968
Understanding the surprise
Ronnie E. Ford

Intelligence and Imperial Defence
British intelligence and the defence of the Indian Empire 19041924
Richard J. Popplewell

Espionage
Past, present, future?
Edited by Wesley K. Wark

The Australian Security Intelligence Organization
An unofficial history
Frank Cain

Policing Politics
Security intelligence and the liberal democratic state
Peter Gill

From Information to Intrigue
Studies in secret service based on the Swedish experience, 19391945
C.G. McKay

Dieppe Revisited
A documentary investigation
John P. Campbell

More Instructions from the Centre
Top secret files on KGB global operations 19751985
Christopher Amdrew and Oleg Gordievsky

Controlling Intelligence
Edited by Glenn P. Hastedt

Spy Fiction, Spy Films, and Real Intelligence
Edited by Wesley K. Wark

Security and Intelligence in a Changing World
New perspectives for the 1990s
Edited by A. Stuart Farson, David Stafford and Wesley K. Wark

A Don at War
Sir David Hunt K.C.M.G., O.B.E. (reprint)

Intelligence and Military Operations
Edited by Michael I. Handel

Leaders and Intelligence
Edited by Michael I. Handel

War, Strategy and Intelligence
Michael I. Handel

Strategic and Operational Deception in the Second World War
Edited by Michael I. Handel

Codebreaker in the Far East
Alan Stripp

Intelligence for Peace
Edited by Hesi Carmel

Intelligence Services in the Information Age
Michael Herman

Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War
The conspiratorial heritage
David McKnight

Swedish Signal Intelligence 19001945
C.G. McKay and Bengt Beckman

The Norwegian Intelligence Service 19451970
Olav Riste

Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Heike Bungert, Jan G. Heitmann and Michael Wala

The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War
Calling the tune?
Hugh Wilford

Our Man in Yugoslavia
The story of a Secret Service operative
Sebastian Ritchie

Understanding Intelligence in the Twenty- First Century
Journeys in shadows
Len Scott and Peter Jackson

MI6 and the Machinery of Spying
Philip H.J. Davies

Twenty- First Century Intelligence
Edited by Wesley K. Wark

Intelligence and Strategy
Selected essays
John Robert Ferris

The US Government, Citizen Groups and the Cold War
The stateprivate network
Edited by Helen Laville and Hugh Wilford

Peacekeeping Intelligence
New players, extended boundaries
Edited by David Carment and Martin Rudner

Special Operations Executive
A new instrument of war
Edited by Mark Seaman

Mussolinis Propaganda Abroad
Subversion in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 19351940
Manuela A. Williams

The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War
Special Operations Executive, 19401946
Edited by Neville Wylie

Britains Secret War against Japan, 19371945
Douglas Ford

US Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy
Truman, secret warfare and the CIA, 194553
Sarah- Jane Corke

Stasi
Shield and sword of the Party
John C. Schmeidel

Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt
The first modern intelligence war
Polly A. Mohs

Exploring Intelligence Archives
Enquiries into the secret state
Edited by R. Gerald Hughes, Peter Jackson and Len Scott

US National Security, Intelligence and Democracy
The Church Committee and the War on Terror
Edited by Russell A. Miller

Intelligence Theory
Key questions and debates
Edited by Peter Gill, Stephen Marrin and Mark Phythian

East German Foreign Intelligence
Myth, reality and controversy
Edited by Thomas Wegener Friis, Kristie Macrakis and Helmut Mller-Enbergs

Intelligence Cooperation and the War on Terror
Anglo-American security relations after 9/11
Adam D.M. Svendsen

A History of the Egyptian Intelligence Service
A history of the mukhabarat , 19102009
Owen L. Sirrs

The South African Intelligence Services
From apartheid to democracy, 19482005
Kevin A. OBrien

International Intelligence Cooperation and Accountability
Edited by Hans Born, Ian Leigh and Aidan Wills

Improving Intelligence Analysis
Bridging the gap between scholarship and practice
Stephen Marrin

Russia and the Cult of State Security
The Chekist tradition, from Lenin to Putin
Julie Fedor

Understanding the Intelligence Cycle
Edited by Mark Phythian

Propaganda and Intelligence in the Cold War
The NATO Information Service
Linda Risso

The NATO Information Service

Linda Risso

First published 2014
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

and by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2014 Linda Risso

The right of Linda Risso to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.